sredish Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Damn, trying to put something together is tough. I can't figure it out. I found a "flash generator" and it actually looks pretty sweet, but it has a freaking address on the bottom that I can't get off, so that just screws it up. Say I do find, or get a good flash animation to use as an intro, how do I link it up with the site, and what would I name the page that it's loaded on, and then I'd link it to my index.html page right? This is pretty new to me. Later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nater006 Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 sredish, Try a program called "Swish". It will make whipping a flash item together a ton easier than using the fullblown Flash MX or 5 or whatever version. They have a lot of included stuff for making spiffy transitions and effects and whatnot. I am a computer geek through and through, and Flash was greek to me when I started. Using Swish helped get a basic level of understanding, and then working on Macromedia's Flash 5 was a bit easier. http://www.swishzone.com Last I used it, it had a really spiffy 15 min tutorial attached, explaining differnet objects, movement, durations, effects, etc. Just got through the basics and went with that but the tutorial went pretty indepth. Might be something to take a peek at if Flash 5 is pretty crazy at the moment.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nater006 Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Here's my source from my index page... <html> <head> <title>Nate's Page</title> <meta name="author" content="SWiSH v2.0"> <meta name="copyright" content="SWiSH v2.0"> <meta name="keywords" content="intro, nate, scene, skip, welcome, world"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <center> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash4/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0" id="index" width="625" height="500"> <param name="movie" value="index.swf"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"> <embed name="index" src="index.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="625" height="500" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> </embed> </object> </center> </body> </html> All it does is basically list what the .swf file is called (In this case, index.swf). The Pluginspage deal will prompt the user to install the Flash player if it isn't already installed. W/o that bit o' code, it just won't work unless the user is so lucky to have installed flash previously. To get all of the above... most FLash/Swish/etc programs will have a "Save as webpage" type of feature which will create code like the above. Then you can just rename, add/subtract/edit as necessary. p.s., when you do create a flash deal.. its always nice to have a "skip" button on it somewhere so people don't have to sit through it if they're ready to tear into the page and order some shiz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sredish Posted July 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Great info man. I appreciate the detailed reply. I'll be checking out the Swish and all that jazz. I'm headed there now. Later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banshee~ Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 sredish, Try a program called "Swish". It will make whipping a flash item together a ton easier than using the fullblown Flash MX or 5 or whatever version. They have a lot of included stuff for making spiffy transitions and effects and whatnot. I am a computer geek through and through, and Flash was greek to me when I started. Using Swish helped get a basic level of understanding, and then working on Macromedia's Flash 5 was a bit easier. http://www.swishzone.com Last I used it, it had a really spiffy 15 min tutorial attached, explaining differnet objects, movement, durations, effects, etc. Just got through the basics and went with that but the tutorial went pretty indepth. Might be something to take a peek at if Flash 5 is pretty crazy at the moment.. thats what i use its freagen easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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